February 2023 Minutes

Meeting Minutes

Schultz Elementary PTO

Meeting Date: February 14, 2023             Meeting Location: Flex Room

Attendance: Heather Calhoun, Lauren Carr, Sarah Heald, Jayme Hiller, Katie McCune, Kristina McDonald, Angela Miley, Nina Riggs Griffin, Bree Saunders, Holly Skedell, Lauren Skillen, Heather Stake, Melissa Stansbery, Heather Ward

1. Call to Order at 7:04pm

2. Minutes: Review of minutes from 1/10/23 meeting

• Motion to amend Penguin Patch profit to $3,765.50 – B. Saunders, 2nd A. Miley, all in favor

3. Co-President's Report

• Volunteers Needed for Mobile Dentist (Monday 3/13 & Tuesday 3/14) – B. Saunders and H. Stake available

4. Treasurer’s Report

• Budget Update

  • Current balance: $11,126.83, waiting for Chad Wanner’s check to clear

• Funding Requests—none 

5. Committee Reports

• Events

  • Spring Fling (May 12)- planning committee needed to plan in March/April

    • Dance/DJ/popcorn/lemonade/photo booth (seek for donations or discounted), other ideas that are memorable

    • Family event, not a drop and leave event

    • Food outside to contain mess?

    • Combine with movie night outside?  Would need rain date

    • Mid-April need to get the word out

  • Secret Santa - Update from H. Stake

    • Reached out to different stores with nicer items than Penguin Patch

    • Need to decide if we want to make money from it with 5-10% increase, maybe not this first year since price is already increasing—biggest selling items are $1-4

    • Idea to do a preview store for parents to go online to see

    • Booked up quickly, so would need to decide

    • Holiday Treasures—no need to inventory (scan items—will make faster and help with volunteers), no pay upfront

    • Sign in to shop and then text when it’s time

    • Santa is booked--$100, Dempsey singers will come

    • Looking for connections with food trucks—Schultz family has “The Tasty Good”

    • A. Miley has a 6’ tree to donate

    • Need to use Penguin Patch points

• Fundraising

  • Little Caesar–delivery date not scheduled yet, allow 1 hour to count and sort before pickup, 1 volunteer per 100 items

    • Sold 336 items, 257 pizza, 79 Cookies, profit $2,016

  • Spring Fundraiser–Foertmeyer Flower Sale (3/1-3/15), pick up Mother’s Day weekend (5/13)

    • Catalogs have arrived

    • Adam (representative) suggested motivating sales

      • good— whole school prize, hat day/pj day

      • better—classroom prize, pizza party, lunch with principal

      • best—individual prize, top seller lunch, top 5 gets to silly string principal, movie in gym on Friday, etc., local fire department come

      • check with local businesses for prizes/coupons

    • Other ideas: breakfast with principal, ride in a police car, principal for the day, extra recess for kids (% of class so it doesn’t exclude kids who are unable to sell), pick your prize, raffle for gift card (The Strand, Amazon, etc.)

    • Top seller for each grade—principal for the day, king/queen of grade, breakfast with principal, lunch with principal

    • Market for Foertmeyer is saturated, so profits have gone down

• Staff Appreciation

  • P/T Conference Meals on March 8 and 16, 

    • Canes chicken and salad bar with to-go dressing

    • Jimmy Johns Subs—set up and pick up volunteers needed (B. Saunders can do 8th)

6. Principal’s Report –Mrs. Baisden

• Beginning to discuss and plan 5th grade celebration

• Field Day in March/April

7. Old Business

• 501(c) (3) update—none 

• Family Literacy Night (March 2 @ 6pm) from S. Heald

  • Steve Harpster during the day, 5 45 min sessions

  • Evening with families, 2 presentations—6:15-6:45, 7-7:30

  • Passport with different area/genres to stamp, finished passports raffled for prize basket

  • Spirit Week to come out digitally

8. New Business

• March we nominate board positions, open in April, vote in May–put on Facebook

• 4th grade Ohio History Connection on May 12, asking for $5/each—120 students, total $625, can vote next meeting with funding request

9. Announcements

• Next meeting will be Tuesday, March 14 @ 7 pm

10. Adjournment at 8:10—Lauren Skillen, A. Miley